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ten days to go and you said the race is deadlocked. what's the obama strategy down the stretch? >> reporter: well, lester, president obama is focusing his closing argument on the issue of trust. he's trying to make the case that mitt romney can't be trusted because he said he's moved to the middle on key issues like taxes, foreign policy and education. the president arguing that he's still the best candidate to get the economy back on track. he continues to enlist former president bill clinton to help. the two will campaign together in florida on monday. the one thing looming over the closing argument, the october jobs report. it comes out the friday before voters head to the polls. lester? >> peter, a candidate can't be in many places at one time. what's the plan for romney with ten days? where will his focus be? >> reporter: it's a good question. mitt romney will focus on an optimistic jobs oriented theme for the last ten days. they are trying to make a contrast between the two candidates. referring to his own candidacy as one of big change and the president is one of status q
ten days to go and you said the race is deadlocked. what's the obama strategy down the stretch? >> reporter: well, lester, president obama is focusing his closing argument on the issue of trust. he's trying to make the case that mitt romney can't be trusted because he said he's moved to the middle on key issues like taxes, foreign policy and education. the president arguing that he's still the best candidate to get the economy back on track. he continues to enlist former president bill...
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what happens on day one? mitt romney has said i will repeal obama care. that's the first thing that comes to my mind. >> i think if it's a president elect romney that means that the senate has gone republican, too. i think that the house obviously stays republican. i think there's a raft of legislation that they will be very aggressive in pursuing. i think it's a very different america 2013 and beyond. i think a lot of people have questions about how mitt romney, moderate mitt that we're seeing now deals with a really rest tiff house caucuses and what will be an energized tea party base. >> i believe it we wake up that day and it is president elect romney, i think the message that a businessman can help speed up our recovery resonated. if he does not wake up president elect and it goes the other way, i think people in the polls reflect this, believe that things are getting better and perhaps they want to give the current president more time to make that happen. >> what about if the headline wednesday morning, november 7th reads, president elect romney? ho
what happens on day one? mitt romney has said i will repeal obama care. that's the first thing that comes to my mind. >> i think if it's a president elect romney that means that the senate has gone republican, too. i think that the house obviously stays republican. i think there's a raft of legislation that they will be very aggressive in pursuing. i think it's a very different america 2013 and beyond. i think a lot of people have questions about how mitt romney, moderate mitt that we're...
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cook told me he had this race figured out he thought five days ago. he saw obama as the slight favorite, now he says "i'm perplexed, i just don't know." rothenberg feels much the same. the words he uses are "feeling flummoxed." he says there were two times this year when the race seemed to change. the president started gaining after the democratic convention; romney began to climb after the first debate. but is he still climbing? rothenberg says he just doesn't know. both men say the undecided vote now is probably between 3% and 5%. what all this suggests to me, scott, is that this election comes down to turnout. the candidate who gets his people to the polls is the candidate who's going to win. >> pelley: thanks, bob. don't be flummoxed on sunday. join bob on "face the nation." his guests will include republican senator john mccain of arizona. the meningitis outbreak has claimed a 25th life today. 331 cases have now been reported in 18 states. we knew that the victims were victims of contaminated steroids produced by a massachusetts pharmacy, but wha
cook told me he had this race figured out he thought five days ago. he saw obama as the slight favorite, now he says "i'm perplexed, i just don't know." rothenberg feels much the same. the words he uses are "feeling flummoxed." he says there were two times this year when the race seemed to change. the president started gaining after the democratic convention; romney began to climb after the first debate. but is he still climbing? rothenberg says he just doesn't know. both...
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by election day, you know who your voters are and you want to be sure they go to a. > -- to vote. >> in many the battleground states, obama has more field offices. >> it comes down to micro- managing and micro-issuing these folks. the republicans have a better ground game in 2004, and a lot of people think it that is why they won that close election, and it fell into disrepair today are building it back up now, but i don't think they are near where obama is yet. >> which candidate has the most enthusiastic, the most in gauge, the most dedicated supporters, colby? >> that is a hard one to answer. i think that clearly after the first debate, the republican party had enthusiastic supporters there. romney did it do well compared to obama. there was disappointment with president obama within the democratic ranks after that first debate he has started to regain the next two performances, but that first debate had a tremendous impact. >> wherever he goes, you hear him say that you have to vote. >> he counts on groups that have low turnout rates paid blacks, hispanics, young people, people h
by election day, you know who your voters are and you want to be sure they go to a. > -- to vote. >> in many the battleground states, obama has more field offices. >> it comes down to micro- managing and micro-issuing these folks. the republicans have a better ground game in 2004, and a lot of people think it that is why they won that close election, and it fell into disrepair today are building it back up now, but i don't think they are near where obama is yet. >> which...
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maybe they support obama, but that's not getting in the car. these rallies where they take you right to a voting place is going to make a difference for president obama. it won't if romney has more votes and wins. it's important to remind the supporters what's at stake and to get them to bank those votes in advance. >> jeff, we are expecting sandy to throw quite the wrench into some campaigning. governor romney shifting his stops tomorrow from virginia to ohio. power outages after the storm could really shift priorities for a lot of swing state voters. how big could the political impact of sandy be? s. >> well, the first thing to think about, since you know i like to do the counterfactual history. what if sandy hit on tuesday november 6th? that would be something that has never happened before, as far as i can tell in american politics. the broader point, if i may, is that the obama campaign, its one advantage even in the midst of the last couple of weeks since the first debate of declining leads is that it's had four years, five, if you count
maybe they support obama, but that's not getting in the car. these rallies where they take you right to a voting place is going to make a difference for president obama. it won't if romney has more votes and wins. it's important to remind the supporters what's at stake and to get them to bank those votes in advance. >> jeff, we are expecting sandy to throw quite the wrench into some campaigning. governor romney shifting his stops tomorrow from virginia to ohio. power outages after the...
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with ten days before election day. president is opening a new line of attack against governor romney accusing him of raising taxes when he was governor of massachusetts. chief white house correspondent ed henry is live in nashua. >> good to see you. republicans think they have got the president on defense. here he is just two weekends before election day and he is in new hampshire. there is only four electoral votes. this is state he carried by double digits in 2008 but the real clear average right now, president is up about 48.3% to 47% for mitt romney. they are fighting for every electoral vote. in fact, mitt romney in couple days, and the president is meeting with teamsters union earlier today trying to to fire up his base. he has a new ad out called remember, trying to call out conservative positions he is trying to moderate him and mask his real views as he presents himself to the american people. it was interesting, the new line of attack at this rally. president accused mitt romney of raising taxes and even thro
with ten days before election day. president is opening a new line of attack against governor romney accusing him of raising taxes when he was governor of massachusetts. chief white house correspondent ed henry is live in nashua. >> good to see you. republicans think they have got the president on defense. here he is just two weekends before election day and he is in new hampshire. there is only four electoral votes. this is state he carried by double digits in 2008 but the real clear...
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however, voters can register to vote on election day and vote. so president obama really at this point trying to energize people, trying to get out the vote, and the obama campaign feels that even though this was a strong state for mitt romney during the republican primaries, that they have a leg up here because they have 24 campaign offices to romney's 9. certainly, he's looking toward election day, and this is some place as well that we'll see vice president biden visiting on monday as well. >> so it also seemed as though the president spent a lot less time talking about romney, and spent a lot more time talking about his accomplishments including ending the war in iraq and going after osama bin laden, and spelling out his plan for the next four years. where is his next stop and is this kind of the new speech that is being unfurled here by the president to spend more time on how he sees the next four years and to remind people of what he has done in the last four? >> you know, he did talk about those things, and i also noticed, fred, that he wa
however, voters can register to vote on election day and vote. so president obama really at this point trying to energize people, trying to get out the vote, and the obama campaign feels that even though this was a strong state for mitt romney during the republican primaries, that they have a leg up here because they have 24 campaign offices to romney's 9. certainly, he's looking toward election day, and this is some place as well that we'll see vice president biden visiting on monday as well....
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. >> reporter: earlier in the day iowa romney argued president obama didn't deserve a second term. >> president obama didn't repair our economy. he did not save medicare and social security. he did not tame the spending and borrowing. he did not reach across the aisle to bring us together. >> reporter: the speech was build as a major economic address but president obama canned it in an interviews with an nbc affiliate in des moines. >> governor romney like every challenger will suggest he has better ideas. the problem and you probably heard in the speech today there's no bear there. >> reporter: in a bid to turn out young voters mr. obama did a live interview with mtv on friday. >> the most vibrant musical art form right now over the last ten, 15 years has been hip-hop. >> reporter: he was asked about student loans, climate change and same sex marriage. >> i have a track record of not just talking the talk on this but also walking the walk ending don't-ask, don't-tell and i'm going to keep on pushing as hard as i can but, you know, what's really going to change this is the young peopl
. >> reporter: earlier in the day iowa romney argued president obama didn't deserve a second term. >> president obama didn't repair our economy. he did not save medicare and social security. he did not tame the spending and borrowing. he did not reach across the aisle to bring us together. >> reporter: the speech was build as a major economic address but president obama canned it in an interviews with an nbc affiliate in des moines. >> governor romney like every...
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unfortunately, turn on your tv, that's exactly what president obama has become these days. you seal, he can't run on his record. you have 23 million people struggling for work. we have factories that are closed. we've lost over 600,000 manufacturing jobs, just since he took office. 38,000 just in the last two months. we're going in the wrong direction. the economy was supposed to be growing twice as fast today as it is, if only we had passed his plan. guess what? the obama economic agenda failed, not because it was stopped, it failed because it was passed. he came into congress with full control of washington. he had the house and the senate and the white house. and he passed his agenda. he passed his stimulus plan with all the borrowing and all the spending. it failed to create the jobs they said it would. and then he turned his attention for a year and a half to have a government takeover of health care. and then he turned his attention to an energy policy where he tried to get a new national energy tax on all of our energy consumption. he didn't get that one through the
unfortunately, turn on your tv, that's exactly what president obama has become these days. you seal, he can't run on his record. you have 23 million people struggling for work. we have factories that are closed. we've lost over 600,000 manufacturing jobs, just since he took office. 38,000 just in the last two months. we're going in the wrong direction. the economy was supposed to be growing twice as fast today as it is, if only we had passed his plan. guess what? the obama economic agenda...
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and we will put america on a new path to a new day with a new president obama, a new president romney, pardon me. you know, i want to forget that word. healthcare and gas prices are high. small businesses burdened with all the government regulation we have. an $814 stimulus that didn't work. high taxes and deficit spending hurting and killing small business, worse economic problems that america has faced since world war ii, 23 million people looking for full-time jobs, unemployment of 14% of the economy. household economy down 8.2%. 47 million people on food stamps, but that's a failure. but we americans are not quitters, we can turn this ship around and we will turn this ship around. we will put america on a new path to a new day with a new president, mitt romney \[applause] you've heard a whole new energy since that first debate, haven't you 1234 you know why? because the people of this country for the first time were able to see the real mitt romney instead of what the chicago henchman were portraying him in six months of negative advertisement. you saw a person standing there with
and we will put america on a new path to a new day with a new president obama, a new president romney, pardon me. you know, i want to forget that word. healthcare and gas prices are high. small businesses burdened with all the government regulation we have. an $814 stimulus that didn't work. high taxes and deficit spending hurting and killing small business, worse economic problems that america has faced since world war ii, 23 million people looking for full-time jobs, unemployment of 14% of...
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on election day, the voters embraced the incumbent. obama knew what was going to happen. >> in the end, voters decided to stick with bobby rush by a huge, huge, huge margin. so it was a very bruising loss for him. >> narrator: obama lost by 30 points. >> it was the first time in his life where people didn't just really accept him immediately, where things didn't really go perfectly for him. >> narrator: the loss seemed like it might be the end of obama's political career. >> people who saw him afterward say he was as low as they've ever seen him. one person who was close to him said he got the sense that senator obama really wondered if he would be able to continue in politics. >> narrator: and it raised real problems with his wife michelle. >> the bobby rush race was the nadir of the obama marriage. her feeling was, "why are you doing this?" this is the moment when they want two totally different things. you know, barack obama wants political success, and his wife wants a normal life. i asked the president and first lady how long it h
on election day, the voters embraced the incumbent. obama knew what was going to happen. >> in the end, voters decided to stick with bobby rush by a huge, huge, huge margin. so it was a very bruising loss for him. >> narrator: obama lost by 30 points. >> it was the first time in his life where people didn't just really accept him immediately, where things didn't really go perfectly for him. >> narrator: the loss seemed like it might be the end of obama's political...
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the wisconsin congressman told the crowd president obama has not revived the economy, but mitt romney can, because he knows how to create jobs. >>> new software will allow americans living overseas to cast an electronic ballot in the november election. a technology-based company in spain says its software will allow ballots to be sent electronically to u.s. citizens living overseas. voters fill the ballot out online, then send them to a u.s. territory by traditional mail or e-mail. >> it's very important to be able to vote from here. i've been doing it for the past 10 years or so, and it's always been difficult and now it's getting easier, and with the system that we have developed, it's quite easy. >> the company says it has also developed electronic voting technology for elections in france, india and australia and other countries. >>> maricopa county in arizona made a costly printing mistakes, telling spanish speaking voters on about 2000 book marks and mailers that the date of the upcoming election is november 8th instead of the 6th. the elections department will now spend $30,000
the wisconsin congressman told the crowd president obama has not revived the economy, but mitt romney can, because he knows how to create jobs. >>> new software will allow americans living overseas to cast an electronic ballot in the november election. a technology-based company in spain says its software will allow ballots to be sent electronically to u.s. citizens living overseas. voters fill the ballot out online, then send them to a u.s. territory by traditional mail or e-mail....
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the sad thing at the end of the day, the tragedy of barack obama is that he was a man who was cut out to do great things. he saw his mission as overcoming partnership in washington, d.c., and ironically, in 2008 and 2009, that was want the main problem in our country. i live in washington i know about partisanship. it's stupid and ridiculous. as problems go, it's about number six or seven on my scale. okay. problem number one, wall street. problem number two unemployment. problem number three health care partisanship is way down there. but strangely number, when you live in d.c. for very long and you talk to standard d.c. democrats they characteristically say partnership is the number one problem. it ails our country. it only we can get together. and i've never understand this. it seems natural to me. of course you're going have different opinions. there's 300 million people in america. people from all different walks of life. people are going disagree. people fight with each other especially when you have a two-party system. i'd rather have a four-party system. we have a two-party sy
the sad thing at the end of the day, the tragedy of barack obama is that he was a man who was cut out to do great things. he saw his mission as overcoming partnership in washington, d.c., and ironically, in 2008 and 2009, that was want the main problem in our country. i live in washington i know about partisanship. it's stupid and ridiculous. as problems go, it's about number six or seven on my scale. okay. problem number one, wall street. problem number two unemployment. problem number three...